Post by Logan on Feb 21, 2016 23:55:34 GMT -6
Bill would require long-term-care facilities to allow cameras that monitor resident care
SUFFOLK -- The camera that Jane Casey hid in her mother’s assisted living facility may have been against the law, but it put her on a journey to find a way to legally track the care of a vulnerable population.
In 2013, Casey was successful in getting Virginia legislators to pass a law to allow electronic monitoring in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, if the resident or authorized family member agreed. Casey was disappointed, though, by a clause added during General Assembly negotiations: allowing facilities the option to refuse.
This year Casey returned to ask legislators to toughen the regulation by requiring that nursing homes allow the cameras.
Senate Bill 553, sponsored by Sen. John Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake, sailed through the Senate, and the measure is being considered by the House.
Read more: pilotonline.com/news/local/health/bill-would-require-long-term-care-facilities-to-allow-cameras/article_7a3876e3-3566-5e42-a58b-9d0bff562ec0.html
SUFFOLK -- The camera that Jane Casey hid in her mother’s assisted living facility may have been against the law, but it put her on a journey to find a way to legally track the care of a vulnerable population.
In 2013, Casey was successful in getting Virginia legislators to pass a law to allow electronic monitoring in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, if the resident or authorized family member agreed. Casey was disappointed, though, by a clause added during General Assembly negotiations: allowing facilities the option to refuse.
This year Casey returned to ask legislators to toughen the regulation by requiring that nursing homes allow the cameras.
Senate Bill 553, sponsored by Sen. John Cosgrove, R-Chesapeake, sailed through the Senate, and the measure is being considered by the House.
Read more: pilotonline.com/news/local/health/bill-would-require-long-term-care-facilities-to-allow-cameras/article_7a3876e3-3566-5e42-a58b-9d0bff562ec0.html